[2009-03-11 16:10] yy <[email protected]> > 2009/3/11 markus schnalke <[email protected]>: > > > > yyyy/mm/dd is not worst but still worse than yyyy-mm-dd. > > > > The latter one is a standard, and it is usable in filenames. > > > > Think about it. > > I'm thinking about it, but really, if slashes are not the standard FS > in dates we are probably living in different worlds.
We live in one world. You may have probably noticed that there are cultures/countries that use different separators. (In my case it's Germany that uses dd.mm.yyyy) However, the dash-separated is the standard that has the great advantage to finally solve the problem of different formats that all use slashes but have their fields differently ordered. > OTOH, a > yyyy/mm/dd structure is convenient to organize months and years in a > tree structure, i.e. directories If yyyy/mm/dd depicts a path, I agree. Anyway, in this case it's the only way, as slash separates files in a path. But to show a date in other situations one should use yyyy-mm-dd to avoid all the confusion the slash-formats cause, to large parts of the world. Standards are to stick to, if they are good. I see no reason why ISO 8601 is bad ... meillo
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